that's the shit

You're very kind. I am kind of of two minds on the critique video: I am very keen to keep a low profile on the internet these days because I feel bad and odd and terrible whenever I poke my head out too much. The internet is not a nice place anymore. At least, web 2.0 isn't. So I kind of decided to hide back in my hole after the first video. 

But that even a single person (you) is keen on more of that is making me think about it. 






 

SeDiceBisonte I'm happy if anything I've been involved in is a positive influence. Your artwork is beautiful. 


Squirrelsquid I still love the art ;)

Love the piece. You've grown so much over the years, keep on keeping on!

Thanks for the kind words.

Yes, Adam, I don't really care about any of that.
 

Thank you, ILKke! 

The reason I didn't do the shooting star as in the original is that I didn't want to use the brighter range of the palette for the halo of the star, I wanted it to be more backdrop.
 

Thanks, Faherya. Video linked in description now. 

Stunning work. Well done!

Thank youu iLKke! Means a lot.

TRUEvector, you could play a game called GO POGO on your smartphone, it's free, if you want to see these elements arranged better.

I agree there's priority concerns, absolutely. Remapping would help, as would spreading out a lot of the foreground masked objects and the like. This is a very condensed mockup and I didn't really feel like fishing for the original layers to make one that would breathe. Just by taking away the foreground black leaves and most of the stumps etc at the bottom of the screen one would understand what's going on much better. Doesn't solve that those middle layer trees are too saturated and share too much space with the actual game character and his platforms, though. 

A very thorough readressing of the colors allotted to different layers would be needed.
 

Macaroni: hard to tell, truly. I wouldn't expect it to have much effect on clean crisp modern monitors, but hard to tell without actually trying it.

Beautiful work.

Here's some forbidden opacity layers. 

Mia was out of Nitrome at that point.

Nope, showtime, but I love that poster now that I've seen it.

Very beautiful. Well done

Dithering in the trousers: that's when Pixelation was experimenting with 'interlace dithering' and other such concepts. 

Thank you for the kind words.

Carrion, perhaps? It's been a long time. Everything I draw has electric blue and purple shadows so it's all like c64 in a way. 
 

Thank you very much.

No, I didn't (it's a png as far as I can tell). This is also close to ten years old. Please don't call people cunts.

Lovely

No worries, I just realized I'd been working in Nitrome for 3 years almost and hadn't shown anything.

Well, at least I *tried* to reupload them, not sure if they're going to show up.

Done and done. Thanks.